It was enough for him to know that Hand had been seriously injured.

Between the two of them they now decided to indicate to Addison, as president of the Lake City Bank, that all relations with Cowperwood and the Chicago Trust Company must cease.
The result of this was, not long after, that Addison, very suave and gracious, agreed to give Cowperwood due warning that all his loans would have to be taken care of and then resigned--to become, seven months later, president of the Chicago Trust Company.

This desertion created a great stir at the time, astonishing the very men who had suspected that it might come to pass.

The papers were full of it.
"Well, let him go," observed Arneel to Hand, sourly, on the day that Addison notified the board of directors of the Lake City of his contemplated resignation.

"If he wants to sever his connection with a bank like this to go with a man like that, it's his own lookout.